Editorial: Counting the dead properly and promptly

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 815-817

  Bird, Sheila M ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84886244010     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12035     Document Type: Editorial

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